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1.nounA long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.
2.nounA soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman.
3.nounA lance with barbed prongs, used by fishermen to retrieve fish.
4.nounAn illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player.
5.nounIn professional wrestling, a running tackle in which the wrestler's shoulder is driven into the opponent's midsection.
6.nounA shoot, as of grass; a spire.
7.nounThe feather of a horse.
8.nounThe rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
9.nounA long, thin strip from a vegetable."asparagus and broccoli spears"
10.verbTo pierce with a spear.
11.verb(by extension) To penetrate or strike with, or as if with, any long narrow object; to make a thrusting motion that catches an object on the tip of a long device.
12.verbTo shoot into a long stem, as some plants do.